(E) THE ACQUIRING OF TOTALITARIAN CONTROL IN
GERMANY ECONOMIC; AND THE ECONOMIC PLANNING
AND MOBILIZATION FOR AGGRESSIVE WAR

Having gained political power the conspirators organized
Gerrnany's economy to give effect to their political aims.

1. In order to eliminate the possibility of resistance in the
economic sphere, they deprived labor of its rights of free industrial
and political association as particularized in paragraph (D) 3 (c)
(1) herein.

2. They used organizations of German business as instruments Of
economic mobilization for war.

3. They directed Germany's economy towards preparation and
equipment of the military machine. To this end they directed finance,
capital investment, and foreign trade.

4. The Nazi conspirators, and in particular the industrialists
among them, embarked upon a huge re-armament program and set out to
produce and develop huge quantities of materials of war and to create
a powerful military potential.

5. With the object of carrying through the preparation for war
the Nazi conspirators set up a series of administrative agencies and
authorities. For example, in 1936 they established for this purpose
the office of the Four Year Plan with the Defendant GÖRING as
Plenipotentiary, vesting it with overriding control over Germany's
economy. Furthermore, on 28 August 1939, immediately before launching
their aggression against Poland, they appointed the Defendant FUNK
Plenipotentiary for Economics; and on 30 August 1939, they set up the
Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich to act as a War
Cabinet.

(F) UTILIZATION OF NAZI CONTROL FOR
FOREIGN
AGGRESSION

1. Status of the conspiracy by the middle of 1933 and
projected plans.

By the middle of the year 1933 the Nazi
conspirators, having acquired governmental control over Germany, were
in a position to enter upon further and more detailed planning with
particular relationship to foreign policy. Their plan was to re-arm
and to re-occupy and fortify the Rhineland, in violation of the
Treaty of Versailles and other treaties, in order to acquire military
strength and political bargaining power to be used against other
nations.

2. The Nazi conspirators decided that for their purpose the
Treaty of Versailles must definitely be abrogated and specific plans
were made by them and put into operation by 7 March 1936, all of
which opened the way for the major aggressive steps to follow,